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Part of the challenge of decarbonizing the grid is spreading out electricity use so that not everyone is using energy at the same time. Currently many electricity grids rely on so-called “peaker plants”—high-emitting power plants that provide electricity when demand surges. With increased demand for AC, more carbon dioxide is emitted from the grid during the summer than at any other time of year.
https://time.com/collection/time-co2-futures/6767962/thermal-storage-climate-air-conditioning/
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A pro-Israel media watchdog is taking aim at CBC Kids for being an “unfettered platform for anti-Israel accusations.”
Plus, figures showing the expenditures for MPs were released in late March, showing that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh spends the most of all party leaders, while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre spends much less than his counterparts.
https://tnc.news/2024/04/16/db-cbc-kids-hamas-crimes/
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LONDON- Afghanistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, with worsening droughts and flash flooding destroying livelihoods and fuelling hunger.
However, the Taliban's seizure of the country in 2021 means it has been excluded from global climate change talks and will not be represented at the COP28 summit starting in Dubai on Thursday.
Here's a look at Afghanistan's climate crisis and its wider repercussions:
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LAWN: I was shocked to learn that my cousins in a suburban community were fined by their homeowners association (HOA) for having clover in their lawn. Doing a little research I discovered this is not unusual; in fact many HOA’s have rules that forbid a wide array of beneficial species including native grasses and wildflowers.
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By Chris Baraniuk
23rd February 2024
From Australia to Ontario, cities are taking up unnecessary stretches of concrete and asphalt, allowing nature to take hold in their place.
On a hot July day, Katherine Rose picked up a sturdy metal pole and jammed it under the tempting lip of a pre-cut concrete slab. Rose, communications and engagement director at Depave, a non-profit in Portland, Oregon, was sweating in the heat – but she was going to win this fight.
The grubby, rectangular section of urban crust in front of her was about to move. Pushing down on her metal bar, applying it like a lever, she eased the concrete covering up and away. Now sunlight could fall once again on the ground below. A mess of gravel and dirt that was, to Rose, just bursting with potential.
"It feels like you're liberating soil," she says, recalling the summer gathering where she and around 50 volunteers removed roughly 1,670 sq m (18,000 sq ft) of concrete from the grounds of a local church. "It's envisioning and fully realising a dream that I think we all have," says Rose. The dream, that is, of bringing nature back into our midst.
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One make-ahead meal I’ve been enjoying recently is a high-protein breakfast bake. I got the idea from a fella named Johnny Hadac on Instagram who serves up easy, affordable meal prep recipes for people looking to lose weight/eat better.
This breakfast bake takes about 15 minutes to prep. The thing that takes the most time is dicing up your veggies. Bake time is about 35 minutes.
When you’re done, you’ll have six tasty, high-protein, low-carb mini breakfast casseroles that will leave your belly feeling nice and full, but without a ton of calories.
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The press are interested in selling papers and the TV companies want to gain viewers. Threat of world-wide disaster makes a good story, and the statements and actions of politicians together with great increase in scientific publications gave global warming an apparent authority. The media began to proclaim the worst imagined horrors. For example, massive floods were predicted due to melting of polar ice. and one UK TV programme went so far as to assert that the polar bears would die out because their habitat would melt. The public rely on the media to provide them with their information, so they came to believe the global warming scare because they were only given one side of the story. Politicians respond to public concern, so the politicians actions began to gain popular support.
On face value global warming is an environmental issue. Many environmentalists joined the bandwagon. Governments were offering money and the public were concerned at global warming. Any environmental issue which could be linked to global warming was said to be involved in the matter. But the environmentalist interest was aroused by the impact of the issue. Contrary to common belief, environmentalists did not raise awareness of global warming, they responded to it. Simply, environmentalist organisations were part of the general public and decided to use the issue when it became useful to them.
http://john-daly.com/history.htm
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authors later corrected the paper to say tree restoration was only “one of the most effective” solutions, and could suck down at most one-third of the atmospheric carbon, with large uncertainties.)
Crowther, who says his message was misinterpreted, put out a more nuanced paper last month, which shows that preserving existing forests can have a greater climate impact than planting trees. He then brought the results to COP28 to “kill greenwashing” of the kind that his previous study seemed to encourage—that is, using unreliable evidence on the benefits of planting trees as an excuse to keep on emitting carbon.
“Killing greenwashing doesn’t mean stop investing in nature,” he says. “It means doing it right. It means distributing wealth to the Indigenous populations and farmers and communities who are living with biodiversity.”
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stop-planting-trees-thomas-crowther?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb
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BATTERY: Benoit said that the bill to fix one car battery at his shop might run upwards of $10,000 — more than most consumers are willing to pay. Instead, he said, many choose to sell or donate their old vehicle for scrap and buy a brand new Tesla.
“It’s getting to the point where [the car] is almost like a consumable, like a TV,” Benoit said.
Benoit’s experience heralds a problem that early adopters of EVs, as well as electric micromobility devices like e-bikes and e-scooters, are beginning to face: These vehicles contain big, expensive batteries that will inevitably degrade or stop working over time. Repairing these batteries can have sustainability
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The Home Energy Saving Kit is available to borrow, free of charge, from selected libraries across Ireland.
Check where your energy is going
The kit contains five tools you can use to measure how your home uses energy and where energy might be escaping.
https://www.codema.ie/think-energy-home-hub/the-home-energy-saving-kit/
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Common Joint Issues in Women
Regardless of your activity level, every woman is prone to joint issues. Some of the most common woes involve the lower extremities. “Knees are probably the most common, followed by hips, ankles and shoulders,” says Antonia F. Chen, M.D., associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of arthroplasty research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Why the knees? Chen blames it on women’s anatomy, namely the angles of the bones from the hips through the knees and down to the ankles.
Of course, there are hereditary issues, like rheumatoid arthritis, that can be difficult to prevent. But even arthritis comes with good news. “Arthritis is manageable and treatable and shouldn’t be feared,” says Sridhar Yalamanchili, PT, MSPT, physical therapist with Atlantic Spine Center in West Orange, New Jersey.
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Meet the Old Irish Goats Who Are Helping Mitigate Wildfire Potential
The Goat Surf Club is about more than surfing, but that doesn’t mean the crew can’t dedicate quality time to finding the best surf spots on their trip to Ireland. In episode three of the new series from filmmaker Roo Smith, the three friends battle strong wind and cold waters off the Irish Coast before meeting up with the Old Irish Goat Society. The organization’s endangered goat herd is helping mitigate wildfire potential through conservation grazing in Mulranny, a village in County Mayo.
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How to Microwave Eggs 4 Different Ways
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Yes, making eggs on the stove is pretty simple, but the microwave can do the trick when you’re without full kitchen, in a rush, or just feeling lazy. When we experimented with four different methods in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, tasters in our blind test actually preferred the poached and hard-boiled eggs done in the microwave over the ones cooked on the stove!
Whether you’re in the mood for scrambled, poached, sunny-side up, or hard-boiled, here’s how to whip eggs any style with a few short zaps.
How to Make Scrambled Eggs in the Microwave
Compared to what you’d get from the stovetop, the microwave scramble tastes more like a broken-up omelet. They can soufflé up a bit, so you’ll see a bigger volume too.
Crack two eggs in a mug. Add a splash of milk if you want them fluffier.
Beat to combine.
Microwave for 2 minutes on high, stopping and stirring in 30-second increments.
How to Make Poached Eggs in the Microwave
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While the whites won’t fully wrap themselves around the yolk like they would in a pot with the whirlpool method, our tasters preferred this microwave version because of its perfectly cooked texture.
Fill a bowl or mug with 1/2 cup water and slip in the egg, making sure it’s submerged.
Lightly prick the center of the yolk with the tip of a knife.
Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high 1 minute.
How to Make Sunny-Side Up Eggs in the Microwave
This is the fasted method we tried, with less than a minute of cooking time.
Spray a microwave plate with cooking spray or lightly grease with butter.
Crack an egg onto the plate and lightly prick the yolk with the tip of a knife.
Microwave on high 45 seconds.
TIP: Your yolk might look runny and undercooked, but cut into it and you’ll probably find that it’s done.
How to Boil an Egg in the Microwave
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Another win for the microwave: Our tasters truthfully preferred these zapped eggs over traditional hard-boiled ones, praising the “fudgy yellow yolk.” But note that you must use caution with this method. Make sure you reduce the microwave power to 50% when you cook the egg: The first time we tried this method, we used full power, and the egg exploded, which could cause injury.
Microwave a bowl of water (deep enough to submerge the egg) for 3 minutes until hot.
Lightly prick the bottom of the egg with a safety pin or thumbtack to prevent the egg from exploding.
Place the egg into the bowl of hot water, cover with a plate, and microwave at 50% power for 4 minutes for a hard-boiled egg. Be sure to use 50% power to avoid exploding the egg. (If you like a runnier yolk, experiment with your microwave at 50% power for 2.5 to 3 minutes.)
Transfer to an ice bath to stop the cooking and to make the egg cool enough to handle before peeling.
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Britain Is Building The World's Largest Tidal Power Project
https://youtu.be/R-CCOjwn46Y?si=6thvTHEGK7bI7--h
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Film Notes
The Hollywood sign, the film industry’s most celebrated and evocative symbol, was built on the slopes of Mount Lee in 1923, when much of today’s Los Angeles did not yet exist. Not many know that the sign was then conceived as part of a massive marketing campaign to publicise an elegant new real estate development called Hollywoodland, created in the hills north of the Hollywood district by a syndicate of wealthy entrepreneurs, including “Los Angeles Times” publisher Harry Chandler. The grandiose sign, spelling out the name Hollywoodland in large letters, was built with tons of metal sheets, hundreds of telegraph poles, and thousands of light bulbs that were intermittently illuminating it at night. Intended to be dismantled just after 18 months, it soon became too popular to be torn down and remained standing, until in 1949 it lost its final “land” portion, which had by then deteriorated beyond repair. On 27 November 1923, Fox News cameraman Blaine Walker climbed the hills around Mount Lee and filmed “the largest sign in the world” nearing completion. These unique images convey the grand scale and ambition of the project, as well as the labour needed to carry it out, and won’t fail to impress the viewer.
Daniela Currò
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/hollywood-sign-outtakes/
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Whilst large scale offshore wind projects can deliver significant volumes of renewable energy and has a huge role to play in our future energy mix, onshore wind and solar PV also have a parallel role to play in the race to decarbonise. DP Energy is developing both ‘offshore wind scale’ multi hundred MW wind and solar projects onshore in Australia and Canada (including a 450MW wind project in mid Queensland, and a 325MW solar project in Alberta) and smaller distribution scale projects (sub 50MW) across both of these markets. DP Energy believes there is a need for a balance of generation asset sizes at different levels within the electricity network and a balance of technologies. At a smaller scale, DP Energy is actively supporting the proposed Buttevant Solar Farm, a 5MW community led project. Such local renewable projects enable people to engage directly with the technology, and contribute directly to our mutual decarbonisation goal and should be an important part of the renewables mix.
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Cork energy firm DP Energy has completed work on Australia's largest hybrid wind-solar farm with Spanish firm Iberdrola.
The Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park in South Australia saw the installation of its final wind turbine this week.
It comprises 50 wind turbines and 250,000 solar panels to produce 320MW of renewable energy.
Headquartered in Buttevant the company has submitted foreshore site investigation licences for three offshore wind projects around the Irish Coast, off Cork, Clare, and Wexford.
DP Energy is also partnering with Iberdrola for the development of these Irish projects.
DP Energy’s first wind farm project was completed in Tyrone in 1995, and since then the company has delivered energy projects in Ireland, Australia, Canada, and the UK.
The company is led by co-founders Maureen and Simon De Pietro — a mother and son partnership.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-40702832.html
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DP Energy is also expanding another solar farm proposed for Medicine Hat from 200 MW to 300 MW.
Kerr said the Calgary and Medicine Hat projects are unique to the company because they are located within city limits. The company has been involved in wind power generation for 25 years with facilities in the UK and Ireland and one in Ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-solar-energy-dpenergy-1.5403001
A spokesperson for the Alberta Utilities Commission says DP Energy has not yet filed its application with the regulatory agency.
The agency says approximately 35 solar projects have been approved by the commission for a total of 1,300 MW. However, the spokesperson points out, approval does not guarantee construction.
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N22 Macroom & Ballyvourney bypass Sept 23
Aindrias Moynihan
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DJI drone footage with day and night views of the new N22 Macroom and Ballyvourney bypass. Flying west to east during mid September 2023, this clip covers the western tie in at Sliabh Riabhach, bypassing Ballyvourney village and eastward to the meet the recently opened section at the Tonn Láin junction immediately east of Ballyvourney village.
Road signage, sound barriers along with road surfaces suggest the near completed state of construction.
This 6-7km section of the new road includes
The big cut at Sliabh Riabhach, over 30m deep and nearly 1km long;
The largest structure along the entire new road, the 120m bridge over both Abha na Biochaille and a local road;
2 pedestrian underpasses including the Beara/Brefni way
2 over bridges and multiple underpasses
Leirionn an clip seo an dul chun cinn deanta leis an mbothar nua N22 mórthimpeal Baile Mhuirne. Síneann sé 6-7km soir ón Sliabh Riabhach, mórthimpeal Baile Mhuirne agus Baile Mhic Íre, go dtí an Tonn Láin. Tá an droichead is mó ann.Thar Abha na Biochaille. Tá an gearradh mór tríd cnoc Sliabh Riabhach. Dhá droichead thar an mbóthar agus dhá cosán coise faoin mbóthar, ina measc siúloid Ó Suillabhan Beara.
https://youtu.be/r8To0FK-ebA?si=I-Ezh9sh-bJw8UXO
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Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds
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Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity
Published: 21st September 2020
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The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
Oxfam’s new report, ‘Confronting Carbon Inequality,’ is based on research conducted with the Stockholm Environment Institute and is being released as world leaders prepare to meet at the UN General Assembly to discuss global challenges including the climate crisis.
The report assesses the consumption emissions of different income groups between 1990 and 2015 – 25 years when humanity doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It found:
The richest 10 percent accounted for over half (52 percent) of the emissions added to the atmosphere between 1990 and 2015. The richest one percent were responsible for 15 percent of emissions during this time – more than all the citizens of the EU and more than twice that of the poorest half of humanity (7 percent).
During this time, the richest 10 percent blew one third of our remaining global 1.5C carbon budget, compared to just 4 percent for the poorest half of the population. The carbon budget is the amount of carbon dioxide that can be added to the atmosphere without causing global temperatures to rise above 1.5C – the goal set by governments in the Paris Agreement to avoid the very worst impacts of uncontrolled climate change.
Annual emissions grew by 60 percent between 1990 and 2015. The richest 5 percent were responsible for over a third (37 percent) of this growth. The total increase in emissions of the richest one percent was three times more than that of the poorest 50 percent.
Tim Gore, Head of Climate Policy at Oxfam and author of the report said: “The over-consumption of a wealthy minority is fuelling the climate crisis yet it is poor communities and young people who are paying the price. Such extreme carbon inequality is a direct consequence of our governments decades long pursuit of grossly unequal and carbon intensive economic growth.”
Carbon emissions are likely to rapidly rebound as governments ease Covid-related lockdowns. If emissions do not keep falling year on year and carbon inequality is left unchecked the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C will be entirely depleted by 2030. However, carbon inequality is so stark the richest 10 percent would blow the carbon budget by 2033 even if all other emissions were cut to zero.
During 2020, and with around 1C of global heating, climate change has fuelled deadly cyclones in India and Bangladesh, huge locust swarms that have devastated crops across Africa and unprecedented heatwaves and wildfires across Australia and the US. No one is immune but it is the poorest and most marginalized people who are hardest hit. For example, women are at increased risk of violence and abuse in the aftermath of a disaster.
‘Confronting Carbon Inequality’ estimates that the per capita emissions of the richest 10 percent will need to be around 10 times lower by 2030 to keep the world on track for just 1.5C of warming – this is equivalent to cutting global annual emissions by a third. Even reducing the per capita emissions of the richest 10 percent to the EU average would cut annual emissions by over a quarter.
Governments can tackle both extreme inequality and the climate crisis if they target the excessive emissions of the richest and invest in poor and vulnerable communities. For example, a recent study found that the richest 10 percent of households use almost half (45 percent) of all the energy linked to land transport and three quarters of all energy linked to aviation. Transportation accounts for around a quarter of global emissions today, while SUVs were the second biggest driver of global carbon emissions growth between 2010 and 2018.
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WATER: Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine having a conference on water quality taking place from November 7-9, this year, at the Clayton Whites Hotel in Wexford town, with attendees drawn from scientists, regulators, and practitioners engaged with water quality and gaseous emissions in agricultural river catchments.
PLANNING: The number of landowners who have lodged appeals with an Bord Pleanála over the inclusion of their land in Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) maps has jumped from six to 600 in the space of just three weeks.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/big-increase-in-number-of-landowners-lodging-rzlt-appeals/
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BIRD FOOD: The establishment deadline has been moved to May 31, winter bird food crop time for establishment has been extended under the Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme.
GREEN Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly praised the commissioner for stating that Europe and Ireland had previously got it wrong in pushing for a particular form of agriculture, which she said had done a disservice to farmers given the direction of policy today.
“It is really important to point out that nobody is pointing the finger at farmers. I hear this quite a lot and it boils my blood slightly.
“People are playing politics with farmers’ lives and with the climate. No Green Party member will ever point the finger at a farmer.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mcguinness-some-farming-policy-choices-were-not-the-right-ones/
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Solar flares are happening a lot more. How you'll know if one's a problem.
"It's the space equivalent of hurricane season."
https://mashable.com/article/solar-flares-sun-active-why?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=catholic_news_pope_francis_on_monday_of_the_angel_easter_monday_share_the_good_news_of_christ_s_resurrection_with_others&utm_term=2023-04-10
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Referencing Ireland’s target of 51 % reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 – and specifically in relation to agriculture’s target reductions of 25% by 2030, Minister McConalogue said the focus for agriculture is “on reducing nitrogen and methane emissions, while increasing carbon capture and storage”.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/goal-to-produce-world-class-milk-with-lower-emissions-minister/
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By: Katrina Gulliver- April 27, 2023
The meaning of a tanned body has evolved in the West over the course of three centuries. As scholars Phillip Vannini and Aaron M. McCright explain, in the eighteenth century, “tanned skin connoted humble class origins, as most unskilled workers and farmers would be tanned from protracted sun exposure during the workday.”
Today, however, we’re bombarded with ads for vacations and swimwear presenting tanned bodies as aspirational: healthy, attractive, and affluent.
It was in the twentieth century that meaning of tanned skin flipped. The fashionability of tanning rose with the popularity of outdoor leisure, particularly for women. After the 1920s, browned summer skin symbolized wealth rather than field work: someone with the freedom to play tennis or go to the beach. Tanning became a fashion imperative, especially after Coco Chanel stated, “The 1929 girl must be tanned. A golden tan is the index of chic!”
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'What Percent Of Our Atmosphere Is CO2?': Doug LaMalfa Stumps Entire Panel With Climate Questions
.04% was the figure in my head before this guy even said it - I'm not a Climate 'Scientist' nor a Global Warming alarmism advocate and I guessed this correctly whilst these guys weren't even within 2 decimal places of the correct answer! Now how does anyone expect them to know the maths to determine how much their policies are going to negatively impact the economy and everyone's lives? "Oh but don't concern yourself with that - we're saving you all (from a non-existent threat)".
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Flying to Ireland to inhale the seaside air as you drive a golf ball into the scenic distance. Crossing the country to reach your enormous yacht, which is ready for your
Hudson River pleasure cruise. Hosting a governor’s wife on your very own aircraft. These are only a few of the joys that the richest Americans have experienced in recent years through their
private jets. And what made them all the sweeter is that they came with a tax write-off. ------------------------------
two planes netted them a tax deduction of $14 million.
Tony Alvarez in 2008 Credit: Brendan McDermid/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo
Last August, their Gulfstream V took off from Westchester County Airport in New York state for Ireland. About an hour later, their Gulfstream IV left for the same destination, a small airport in County Kerry near their club. Both planes can comfortably seat over a dozen passengers, but flight records don’t show who was on board. Over the coming month and a half, the two planes crisscrossed the Atlantic several times.
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial processes contribute largely to the greenhouse effect and climate change. One of these industries is the cement industry, which contributes around 8% of CO2 emissions caused by mankind. Two promising and interesting ways to reduce CO2 emission are the utilization of alternative cementitious materials and carbon capture and utilization through CO2 mineralization. In this study, peat-wood fly ashes from fluidized bed combustion were used as a construction material for mineral carbonation. A self-hardening characteristic of this type of fly ash was utilized, and simultaneous carbonation and hydration reactions were studied. The study showed that fly ashes from the fluidized bed combustion of peat and wood could be used to capture and mineralize CO2 during hydration reactions.
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China’s pollution scourge has its roots in trade agreements set in motion by President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s that allowed U.S. companies to take advantage of cheap labor and lax environmental standards in the world’s most populous nation—where coal energy reigns supreme. Many times the United States helped China finance dirty sources of energy.
As much as one-third of China’s carbon load on the atmosphere can be traced to exports of cheap clothes, electronics, machinery and other goods consumed by Americans and Europeans, experts say.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032014/us-trade-deals-90s-set-china-pollution-haven/
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A Bold Plan to Beam Solar Energy Down From Space
The European Space Agency is exploring a unique way to dramatically cut carbon emissions by tapping sunlight closer to the source.
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These staggering numbers came at a huge cost.
In the last two decades, Indonesia lost nearly 25 million acres of forest, an area larger than the entire country of Ireland. Roughly a third of that deforestation was caused by palm oil, according to a 2022 study. In Borneo, an island split among Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the palm oil industry caused roughly 40 percent of deforestation between 2000 and 2018, or roughly 6 million acres of forest loss. That’s almost five times the size of Delaware. --------------------------------
“We can now see deforestation in near-real time,” said David Gaveau, a landscape ecologist at TheTreeMap, a research organization, and lead author of the 2022 paper on palm-driven deforestation. “It’s not the Wild West it used to be.”